Department of Transport: Consultants

(asked on 19th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department has spent on (a) consultancy services including (i) communications, (ii) advertising, (iii) marketing and (iv) media buying since 1 March 2020.


Answered by
Chris Heaton-Harris Portrait
Chris Heaton-Harris
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
This question was answered on 24th November 2020

For the core department, the amount incurred for consultancy from 1st March – 31st October 2020 is £53m. As with previous years, the majority of this is in relation to large scale transport infrastructure programmes. £96k out of the £53m relates to spend on Marketing and Communications Consultancy.

Consultancy is defined as the provision of objective advice relating to strategy, structure, management or operations of an organisation, in pursuit of its purposes and objectives. Such advice is provided outside the ‘business-as-usual’ environment when in-house skills are not available and is time-limited. The numbers quoted here are from unaudited internal management accounting information.

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